Demographics of Lebanon
| Demographics of Lebanon | |
|---|---|
Population pyramid of Lebanon in 2020 | |
| Population | 5,469,612 (July 2020 est.), including 910,256 Syrians, 170,000 Palestinians, and 5,700 Iraqis (110th) |
| Density | 741 people per.sq.km (2017 est.) |
| Growth rate | -6.68% (2020 est.) |
| Birth rate | 13.6 births/1,000 population (2020 est.) |
| Death rate | 5.4 deaths/1,000 population (2020 est.) |
| Life expectancy | 78.7 years (2020 est.) |
| • male | 77.8 years (2020 est.) |
| • female | 79.8 years (2020 est.) |
| Fertility rate | 1.72 children born/woman (SRS 2015) |
| Infant mortality rate | 0.5 deaths/1,000 live births (2020 est.) |
| Net migration rate | -0.9 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2024 est.) |
| Age structure | |
| 0–14 years | 23.32% (male 728,026 /female 694,453) (2018 est.) |
| 15–64 years | 69.65% (male 2,139,885/male 2,108,917) (2018 est.) |
| 65 and over | 7.03% (male 185,780/male 243,015) (2018 est.) |
| Sex ratio | |
| Total | 1 male/female (2017 est.) |
| At birth | 1.05 male(s)/female (2017 est.) |
| Under 15 | 1.05 male(s)/female (2017 est.) |
| 15–64 years | 1.03 male(s)/female (2014 est.) |
| 65 and over | 0.79 male(s)/female (2017 est.) |
| Nationality | |
| Nationality | Lebanese |
| Major ethnic | Arab (95%) |
| Minor ethnic | |
| Language | |
| Official | Arabic |
| Spoken | Lebanese Arabic, English, French |
| Minority languages include Armenian and Aramaic | |
| Demographics of Lebanon | ||
|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Rank | Measure |
| Economy | ||
| GDP (PPP) per capita | 66th | $19,500 |
| Unemployment rate | ↓ 21st | 20.89%* |
| CO2 emissions | 78th | 3.05t† |
| Electricity consumption | 77th | 49.72GWh |
| Economic Freedom | 95th | 2.98 |
| Politics | ||
| Human Development Index | 80th | 0.757 |
| Political freedom | Partly | 4 |
| Corruption (A higher score means less (perceived) corruption.) | ↓ 134th | 2.5 |
| Press freedom | 45th | 74.00 |
| Society | ||
| Literacy Rate | 43rd | 96.7% |
| Number of Internet users | 59th | 4,545,007 users |
| E-readiness | 14th | 7.16± |
| Ease of Doing Business | 24th | Unknown |
| Health | ||
| Life Expectancy | 59th | 77.0 |
| Birth rate | 113th | 15.6‡ |
| Fertility rate | 157th | 1.77†† |
| Infant mortality | 127th | 14.39‡‡ |
| Death rate | 157th | 7.5‡ |
| HIV/AIDS rate | 127th | 0.10% |
| Notes | ||
| * including several non-sovereign entities ↓ indicates rank is in reverse order (e.g. 1st is lowest) † per capita ± score out of 10 ‡ per 1000 people †† per woman ‡‡ per 1000 live births | ||
This is a demography of the population of Lebanon including population density, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
About 95% of the population of Lebanon is either Muslim or Christian, split across various sects and denominations. Because religious balance is a sensitive political issue, the only national census ever published was conducted in 1932 under the French Mandate, before the founding of the modern Lebanese state. Consequently, there is an absence of accurate data on the relative percentages of the population of the major religions and groups. The system of census taking under the French Mandate, based on the legal categories of sex, sect, and kinship, remains largely in place today. The 1932 census identified, organized, and enumerated sects and determined the nascent body of citizens, which were recorded, managed, and produced through the national registries also forged at that time.
The absence of data and comprehensive statistics also concerns all other demographic studies unrelated to religious balance, due to the all but total inactivity of the concerned public agencies. The only recent (post-war) statistics available are estimates based on studies made by private organizations.
The biggest study made after the independence on the Lebanese Population was made by the Central Administration of Statistics (in French: "Administration Centrale de la Statistique") under the direction of Robert Kasparian and Grégoire Haddad's Social Movement: "L'enquête par sondage sur la population active au Liban en 1970" (in English: "The survey on the active population in Lebanon in 1970"). It was conducted on a sample of 130,000 individuals.
There are between 10 and 15 million Lebanese and descendants of Lebanese worldwide, mostly Christians, compared with the internal population of Lebanon of around 4.6 million citizens, in 2020.